ELK HUNT IN WYOMING 



thing that moves without first finding out 

 what it is. My guide expressed his surprise 

 at the number of accidents which occur every 

 year in the Adirondacks through gross care- 

 lessness. He remarked that he believed it 

 would be best if one were hunting in the 

 Adirondacks and saw anything moving in the 

 brush to shoot without waiting to find out 

 what it was, because the chances are that it 

 would be a man, and if you did not shoot 

 him he would shoot you. I was rather 

 amused at this piece of grim humor, which is 

 a sample of what he generally had on tap. 



The sun dawned auspiciously upon what 

 proved to be my luckiest day in camp. For 

 some days I had hunted diligently without 

 securing the heads that would satisfy me. 

 We had not journeyed over three miles from 

 camp before we saw, at quite a distance, a 

 large bull move into a thickly wooded valley. 

 We turned our course in that direction, keep- 

 ing out of view as much as possible, riding 

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